Today in history India 17 October – Events that took place on this day in history 17 October
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on 17 October promotes people’s awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution worldwide.
1979-Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1994-Kapil Dev’s final one-day international (vs West Indies).
2008-Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-scorer ever in test cricket beating Brian Lara’s record and passing 12,000 runs against Australia in Mohali.
2018-India’s junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is the highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women.
October 17 famous birthdays in India – Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 17 October
1941-Sarita Joshi, Indian stage, television and film actress.
1947-Simi Garewal, Indian actress and a talk show hostess.
1957-Hemant Gupta, Judge of Supreme Court of India.
1965-Sanjay Kapoor, Indian film actor and producer.
1970-Anil Kumble, former Indian cricketer, coach, and commentator, who played Tests and ODIs for 18 years.
1973-Bhagwant Mann, Indian politician.
1986- Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi, Indian film actress.
1992-Keerthy Suresh, Indian film actress who appears in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films.
1992-Pranitha Subhash, Indian film actress who appears in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil language films.
1817- Syed Ahmad Khan was an Islamic pragmatist, Islamic reformer, and philosopher.
1859-Keshavlal Dhruv was a research scholar, philologist, critic.
1892- R. K. Shanmukham Chetty was an Indian lawyer, economist and politician who served as independent India’s first finance minister.
1955-Smita Patil was an Indian actress of film, television and theatre.
Today in history India 17 October – Famous people that have death anniversaries on this day in history 17 October
1981-Kannadasan was a Tamil philosopher, poet, film song lyricist, producer, actor, script-writer, editor, philanthropist.
1993-Vijay Bhatt was a producer-director-screenwriter of Hindi cinema, who made such films as Ram Rajya.
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